SIPHER is an ambitious casual-fighting and exploration game that has an end-game goal of creating an open world social experience, all built on the Ethereum Blockchain.

Players can purchase one or multiple character NFTs through a Minting Smart contract or from secondary markets (such as OpenSea). These NFTs essentially serve as the in-game characters, which allows players to venture into Sipheria to conquer expeditions and embark on PvE and PvP game modes.

Currently available characters:

Note that the first 10,000 of each race will be considered "Genesis Siphers" and also provide early access to pre-release stages of the game such as Alpha and Beta tests. Refer to the following page for further details regarding Genesis Sipher Benefits ‣.

You will only need one Sipher NFT character to play the game.

This is our way of rewarding the people who have supported SIPHER since the beginning. Given that they are the first to support and purchase characters, Genesis Sipher NFT holders will benefit in ways that non-Genesis NFT holders will not. Please refer to the

Benefits of Owning a Genesis Sipher

After the release of the game, a cloning mechanism will be implemented. This means that future participants of Sipher will be able to acquire clones from the existing player base. This will reward those that were fortunate enough to have one of the first Genesis Siphers NFT characters of each of the different races.

The Sipher game will be available on PC and mobile platforms (iOS, Android), and these will be integrated in a seamless manner with the Blockchain.

The first version of the game will be released on PC, and afterward, the game will be launched on mobile platforms. Ultimately, we aim to create a cross-platform gameplay experience.

Players can earn in-game resources and cryptocurrency tokens such as $ATHER and $SIPHER by playing the game.

Additionally, players can earn NFT Prizes and in-game trophies, and they can rank up on the leaderboards and show off their ranks in the Hall of Fame.

Players have true ownership over their digital in-game assets, including items, characters, attributes linked to those assets, etc. It is all stored in the Blockchain via the use of personal crypto-wallets.

Items and assets can be sold to other players through a Marketplace that will be built on the Blockchain, completely permission-less and trustless. Note: Players might need to pay gas fees and market fees on the Sipher Marketplace to perform these transactions.‌

Like any ERC-721 Tokens, players can send their assets to any other user's wallet as long as they have the correct wallet address and pay the applicable gas fee. Additionally, players could transfer their assets via the Sipher Marketplace.

This is the current fee-structure on the secondary marketplace, OpenSea:

"Play-2-Earn" (P2E) is a gaming business model, considered to be one of the latest developments in the gaming industry. It allows for an in-game economy that can be translated into a real-world micro-economy.

In the traditional gaming business models, and especially in "Free to Play" models, companies are the ones that sell the game items, characters skins, and in-game currencies. This means that all of these items belong to the player after they make the purchase directly from the company. However, once a player has obtained one of these items, they are typically tradable in-game only, and not tradeable with other players for real-life money unless they break the Terms of Service and sell their accounts, and with the exception of certain games (such as CS:GO). Additionally, if anything were to happen to the game such as shutting down, these items could be lost forever.

The P2E model allows players to have full ownership of their in-game assets. This means that, depending on the game, characters and items such as weapons, outfits, character skins, and in-game currencies are owned by the player and they can also exist outside of the game's environment in the form of tokens that live in the Blockchain. Currency tokens are typically considered "Fungible Tokens", and in-game assets (such as items, weapons, characters, land, etc.) are typically considered "Non-Fungible Tokens" (NFTs). Having full ownership of these currencies or items in the form of tokens allows for players to do with them as they wish outside of the game too. This means that they can lend them to other players, and trade them with other players either directly (from wallet to wallet) or via secondary markets (such as OpenSea for NFTs) or exchanges (decentralized such as UniSwap; or centralized such as Binance).

In a P2E model, these in-game currencies or assets are also typically earnable by playing the game, hence the name "Play-2 (to)-Earn". This means that players can earn and create value for other players and the developers by simply having fun and participating in the in-game economy. To use an existing P2E game as an example, Axie Infinity is a game where players own "Axies", which are cute creatures that live on the Blockchain (as NFTs). By playing the game, players can earn Smooth Love Potions (SLPs) and Axie Infinity Shards (AXS), which serve as currency tokens. Players need these tokens to breed new Axies, which can be sold to other players so they can build their team and play the game; or they can also sell the SLP and/or AXS tokens to other players on the open marketplace or exchanges.

One of the big benefits of playing a P2E game is that a player will typically create or retain value, or earn real-life money. For instance, even if they invest a certain amount of money to play the game (whether it be by purchasing a character as an NFT or purchasing tokens), this investment could be retrieved fully or partially given that they can be sold again to other players if the player decides to stop playing.

Fundamentally there is no difference. They are both an NFT, meaning that they are unique tokens, are usually part of a collection, and are unique and identifiable. They each provide proof of ownership of a digital asset. However, there is a difference in terms of the purpose or use for each one.

For instance, those projects or NFTs that are considered "digital avatars" typically have the purpose of being able to utilize them as a Profile Picture (PFP), or can also be considered "collectibles". Individuals who purchase these digital assets tend to utilize them for purposes of having a unique online identity, and potentially show-off to others. Additionally, there's typically a sense of belonging, given that there are others who purchase the same "PFP" avatars, and as such a community is inherently built around the love and support for the project.

NFTs that are to be used in a P2E game could potentially be used for the same reason (i.e. as a PFP), but that is to each user's discretion. The main purpose of these types of NFTs is that they will serve as in-game assets, be it a character, weapon, item, cosmetics, etc. This means that they have utility given that they are to be utilized in-game and each has a purpose of its own.

For SIPHER, each NFT character that you purchase can be utilized as a profile picture if you desire, but the main purpose is that they will be in-game characters with different classes, skills, and looks. Additionally, there will be other types of NFTs that you can utilize in-game. For instance, there will be in-game Spaceships (mounts), which will be NFTs as well. To build a Spaceship you will need Spaceship parts, each being a separate "NFT" that you can obtain and combine. More details about Spaceships here

ERC721 is a standard on the Ethereum Blockchain; a standard is simply a template or format that other developers agree to follow. Developers follow the same standards because it makes writing code easier, more predictable, and reusable. These standards are completely voluntary, but following a widely used standard means compatibility with a wide variety of applications including exchanges, dapps, and wallets.‌

ERC721 is a token standard on Ethereum for Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT). Fungible means interchangeable and replaceable so something like Bitcoin is fungible because any Bitcoin can replace another Bitcoin. Each NFT, on the other hand, is completely unique. One NFT cannot replace another. SIPHER decided to use ERC-721 as it is the most widely supported standard of NFT currently across many platforms and marketplaces.‌

In the near future, we are considering the implementation of ERC-1155 to facilitate more functionalities that would be required for in-game on-chain and off-chain implementations, in order to optimize transaction time and gas cost. Source: https://decrypt.co/resources/erc721-what-is-it-guide-ehtereum-token

From On-chain to Off-chain‌

On-chain is used only for user asset declaration and keeping. Every time a player interacts with the game, they enter into a trust relationship where they will:‌

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From Off-chain to On-chain

1. Once the player logs out, the state of their characters, progress, and item inventory, any purchases from Sipher they make, which were stored off-chain will be pushed on-chain. This may require a gas fee to be paid by the user.

Because of the inherent limitations of the Blockchain such as Gas Fees, Storage size, and slow TPS, having everything from the game on the Blockchain is impossible or not feasible at this moment. Therefore, Sipher decided to employ Blockchain as the central tool as the Source of Truth for all User Assets that have been generated in the game. For other game assets such as environments art assets that may appear on the User's screen and land plots, we will store all the data off-chain in our game server to allow for faster loading.‌

If in the future we do decide that users will also own the small insignificant assets like trees and stones assets in the game, we will propose a suitable and scalable solution involving Blockchain.

You can find the $SIPHER token on UniSwap or KyberSwap.

You can find more information on the following page

Sipher Tokenomic

Tiers do not overlap. For instance, if you hold 10 Sipher INUs in your wallet you will only be eligible for The High Table (Tier 3) for the NEKO launch.

This is wallet based system, meaning that you can have one wallet that qualifies for The High Table (Tier 3), and another (or other) wallet(s) that separately qualifies for one of the three tiers based on the amount of Sipher NFTs in that (or those) wallet(s).

For those tiers that will receive Sipher recruits (free NFTs), each wallet holder will be able to to mint them for FREE (plus gas) for a specific period of time before or after the public sale, which will be confirmed at a later date for each character species launch.

We have decided to go with this approach with the intention of rewarding those members who are active in our community.

For those that receive private-sale slots, there will also be a period of time in which you will be able to purchase your Sipher Recruits. For the NEKO launch, the private sale will start after the public launch (Dutch Auction) ends, and ends 24hrs after. For the future Genesis Sipher races (i.e. Buru, Tori), the amount of time and dates will be confirmed later.

The Collector’s Program and any character whitelist programs are separate.

A snapshot is essentially a record of all wallets and the amount of Sipher Recruits at a specific point in time. There will be more than one snapshot for each character launch (i.e NEKO, BURU, etc.). The first snapshot will always be considered the deadline, which is when we will obtain the full list of wallets eligible and will identify which are the tiers they fall under. Afterward, there may be one or more snapshots taken at random dates closer to each character launch to confirm admission to The Collector’s Program.

The snapshots for the other Sipher Race/Character Launches will be announced at a later date.

Answer:

Please refer to the

Benefits of Owning a Genesis Sipher

Excluding the Species and Sub-Race considerations (different skills, abilities, etc.), your Genesis Sipher will not be stronger than other Siphers in-game when it comes to PvP matches. This is to keep the battlegrounds fair to everyone.

However, there will be certain perks that come with your Genesis Sipher, which Non-genesis Siphers will not have, such as:

The rarity of your Genesis Sipher NFTs mainly has the purpose of identifying how that particular Sipher rarity ranks as compared to others, based on specific traits. This rank is calculated based on the traits that your Sipher NFT has, and how many more of each trait there are available on the Genesis Sipher NFTs within the same collection (e.g. Sipherian Surge Collection for the Sipher INU NFTs; Sipher NEKOs as compared to other NEKOs in the Sipherian Flash Collection). In addition to the in-game cosmetics, this mainly affects those that consider themselves "NFT collectors" who try to get the rarest of traits and NFTs.

Given the long-term strategy and approach for the game, we believe that the number of Genesis Siphers released for each Race is low as compared to the number of people that we are targeting to onboard to the game in the future. Additionally, there is a limited number of each of the Genesis Sipher species, be it the INU, NEKO, BURU, etc. Each of the species will have different skills & attacks and will target different playstyles, which means that they should be considered separate from each other. Think about other games where you have a broad selection of characters - you won’t always play the same character depending on what your teammates have selected, or what would work best as a strategy against what your opponents selected. So there may be players who may end up owning one or more of each of the species.

Determining price value for an NFT is highly speculative that only the market can establish. As such, we can't say whether Genesis Siphers will be worth more than those cloned down the line. However, we can say that there is functional value to holding a Genesis Sipher. As described in

Benefits of Owning a Genesis Sipher

Additionally, it's worth noting that, although there is a possibility of some Genesis Siphers being weaker than their future clones (because of how the cloning process is intended to work), Genesis Siphers will always retain their ability to create the best clones, those that not even clones of clones will be able to match. This strength in cloning is where we believe lies the inherent value and utility of the Genesis Sipher NFTs.

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